Thompson, Charles John Samuel (1862-1943)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 MSS.7984-7986, 8124, 8149-8151, 8312-8315, 8348, 8442-8443, 8530, 8534 and 8573-8574
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Thompson, Charles John Samuel (1862-1943)
Date(s)	: 1893-1936
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 12 volumes, 2 files and 3 bundles
Name of creator(s)	: Thompson | Charles John Samuel | 1862-1943 | medical librarian
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Medical librarian and historian, attached to Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. For detail on the formative years of the Wellcome museum, Thompson's role in this and his disagreements with Henry Wellcome see John Symons, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine: a short history (London: The Wellcome Trust, [1993]).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Charles Thompson including essays, notes, recipe book (MS.7984) and correspondence, 1893-1936. Much of this material was created in Thompson's capacity as a Wellcome employee.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Described in Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

MSS.7984-7985 transferred to the Wellcome Library from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (MS.7984 presented to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain by Miss C.F. Thompson, daughter of C.J.S. Thompson, in January 1972; MS.7985 carries Pharmaceutical Society stamp dated August 1973, presumably date of acquisition by the Society). Remaining items transferred from elsewhere in Wellcome organisation: transferred from store, April 1936, 1941, January 1957. MS.8574 found in the Wellcome Library copy of Vidius, Chirurgia, 1544, and transferred to the Archives and Manuscripts department, March 2001 (acc.919).

Allied Materials

Related material:

In the Wellcome Library: Thompson's work is also documented in the Wellcome Archives (WA/). Material by him on the history of midwifery forceps is found at MS.8525. MSS.7625 and 8506-8507, which document the pioneering work of Henry Hill Hickman in anaesthesia, contain material relating to Thompson's investigation of Hickman's work.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Jan 2009